Atari: Game Over Documentary Heads to VOD in February

Atari: Game Over is coming to VOD services on February 2nd, 2015 in North America, the UK, Australia, and Japan.

The documentary, directed by Zak Penn (The Avengers), revolves around "The Great Video Game Burial of 1983," in which Atari was rumored to have disposed of 3.5 million E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial video game cartridges in the New Mexico desert.

In April of last year, copies of this long lost Atari 2600 game and others were indeed dug up in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Some of the games retrieved from the excavation sold on eBay for hundreds of dollars.

The Atari: Game Over documentary about this period in gaming history was produced in collaboration with Xbox. A free preview exclusive on Xbox Live began late last year, but soon it will be available to everyone.

You'll be able to purchase Atari: Game Over on iTunes, Google Play, and Vimeo. It will also be available on Amazon Instant Video, Wuaki, and Blinkbox in the UK, as well as Fetch in Australia and Japan.